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A ballet of Frank Wedekind's Lulu
If you are near the Oper Halle (Saale), Germany on December 4, 2015 you might want to check out the premiere of Lulu, a ballet enacted by Jochen Ulrich & the Tanzfonds Erbe, based on Frank...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival Presents Day of Silents
With its many festivals devoted to so many different aspects of film, festivals goers in San Francisco are especially fortunate in their opportunity to take in movies others may have only heard or read...
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Snapshots from Louise Brooks' Rochester, NY (part 1)
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Rochester, New York in order to conduct some research on Louise Brooks at the George Eastman House Museum. During my four day visit, I had the chance to meet...
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Snapshots from Louise Brooks' Rochester, NY (part 2)
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Rochester, New York in order to conduct some research on Louise Brooks at the George Eastman House Museum. During my four day visit, I had the chance to meet...
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Snapshots from Louise Brooks' Rochester, NY (part 3)
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Rochester, New York in order to conduct some research on Louise Brooks at the George Eastman House Museum. During my four day visit, I had the chance to meet...
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Notes on Louise Brooks' notebooks
As the three previous blogs note, I recently took the opportunity to visit Rochester, NY and its world famous George Eastman Museum. The purpose of my visit -- a trip five years in the planning -- was...
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Diary of a Lost Girl (book and DVD) starring Louise Brooks
If you are still looking for just the right gift for the Louise Brooks or silent film fan on your holiday list, may I suggest Diary of the Lost Girl, either the "Louise Brooks edition" of the book that...
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True Confession: I've Been Stalking Louise Brooks for 20 years
An early VHS copy of Pandora's Boxfrom a time when this was the onlyway to see a Louise Brooks' filmIt all started more than 20 years ago on a Friday night at Video Wave in San Francisco. Not having...
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More True Confessions: Pics from the Louise Brooks Society (part 1)
Here are some more images from the 20 year history of the Louise Brooks Society. Launched in 1995, the LBS was one of the first websites devoted to silent film or a silent film star. Only a few pages...
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More True Confessions: Pics from the Louise Brooks Society (part 2)
Here are yet more images from the 20 year history of the Louise Brooks Society. Launched in 1995, the LBS was one of the first websites devoted to silent film or a silent film star. Only a few pages at...
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Is Louise Brooks pictured in a 1927 Our Gang short?
For some time now, there has been word going round that a newspaper image of Louise Brooks can be seen in the 1927 Our Gang short, Ten Years Old. This 22 minute film centers on Joe and his tenth...
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Louise Brooks and Frankenstein
It is well known that director James Whale considered Louise Brooks for the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). That part, of course, went to Elsa Lanchester. I can't imagine anyone else in the...
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A Quick Study into the Present‐Day Location of the former Staaken Studios, by...
Military historian and author (Battle of the Bulge Through the Lens) and Louise Brooks' fan Philip Vorwald has created a remarkable document, "A Quick Study into the Present‐Day Location of the former...
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Diamond, a work of historical fiction with a Louise Brooks cover
How I missed this I don't know, but one year ago today a work of historical fiction was published which featured Louise Brooks on the cover. The book is Diamond, by Cynthia L. Jordan. It is from...
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Two Louise Brooks postcards from France #1
Here are two Louise Brooks postcards from France dating from the 1990s. The front and back of each card is depicted.
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Two Louise Brooks postcards from France #2
Here are two more Louise Brooks postcards from France dating from the 1990s. The front and back of each card is depicted.
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Louise Brooks in Beggars of Life w Dodge Bros at Royal Albert Hall
The sensational 1928 William Wellman film, Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England on March 7, 2016. The Dodge Brothers will provide live...
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Best new films books of 2015
It's been a great year for film books, with biographies and studies of key individuals dominating the field in 2015. Among trade publishers, Pantheon continues to issue "must read" books, while one...
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New book: Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film...
I just received a copy of a new book I am especially excited about. It is Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, by Richard Abel. The book is published by the...
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Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays, including Christmas
There is a swell new book out from Schiffer, Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays: 1920-1970, by Karie Bible and Mary Mallory. Fans of silent film, of early Hollywood, and the studio era will all want to...
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